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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 6, 1940.

CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS WATCH FOR PARACHUTE SPIES POST OFFICE

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WE OFFER highest prices to any amount of old articles, fades, Jewels, diamonds, etc. Apply Eurasli Gold Reaning Co., 7th four, China Bulid- ing. Tel. 30727. No holidays.

FOR

FOR SALE.

SALE. ACE and Stapling Machines present

Cadet stock

being sold at old prices. Apply L. R. Nielson & Co. Lid. Once Equip ment Department, Gloucester Build- Ing.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

NOTICE la hereby given that the Eighteenth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held at Exchange Building, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, 8ih June, 1940, AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.

The Transfor Books of the Com- pany will be closed from 28th. MAY to 8th JUNE, 1940, both days. inclusive.

By Order of the Board Directors.

of

A. W. BROWN,

Manager, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1940.

DAYLIGHT SAVING

"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY Shorter Hours for Banks

THE CAMERA" Second Edition. Over 60 excellent views of the Colony, Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the PublisherS, South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.

In Chungking

Chungking, June 5.

the

arc

from yesterday Beginning

offices Government Chinese observing summer hours, remaining

METROPOLE open from 8.30 a.m. to 11 am. and

HOTEL

ENTRAL CLEAN

from 3 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

Due to the air raids around noon

the banks changed their office hours from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. not opening for

COMFORTABLE FIREPROOF business before noon. Reuter,

The

Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic Competition June-September, 1940. Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.

for the bost and second-best entries.

Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK Co.

Fint Prizes in each of the four Sections,

$250 CASH PRIZES $250

SECTION ONE

-General-Pictorial: Land and Seascapes:

Architecture: Street Scenes, etc.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION TWO

Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION THREE

Still Life and Table Top Studies.

Their

are

1

Chances FRANCE'S YOUNGEST SOLDIER

in

1000

By An Air Correspondent.

THE Government are expecting attempts to land Germans in this country by parachute. They may not

be soldiers at first.

MARRIED?

Jacqueline Delubac, French actress and former wife of playwright Sacha Guitry, re- ported married to Leslie Hore- Botisha, former British War Minister. Report from Can- nes, France.

5th Column Fails In Britain

Drastic Steps To Stamp It Out

There is reason to believe that Nazi spics in civilian clothes, speaking English fluently and with English money in their wallets, may attempt landings on moors and in hilly districts at dusk or just before dawn.

They may try to prepare the way for Nazi parachute troops landing a few hours before a mass nir attack our airfields, airplane and air- engine factories, and supply stores.

enemy' plain-clothes parachute

on

The

men might even try to put up at ho- tels, and then guide uniformed para- chute troops to the places where most damage could be done,

The Narl uniformed parachute soldiers, who are volunteer "suleide squads." would cut lelephone wires knd throw hand grenades into lele- phone exchanges car airfields

uld they

in Norway. The aim would be to sabaige our air de- fence mechanism in advance of the arrival of bombers.

their

Constant Vigilance Parachute spiesupposing- ahrplanes were not shot down before they could jump-live only one chance in 1000 of remaining undis- covered.

servers

Firstly, there is a army of thou- sands of trained men, both civilian and military, watching night and day for anything unusual in the sky. These are the voluntary civilian ob- and the Army anti-aircraft "spotters."

Their constant training since September has brought their eyes lo concert pitch, Any parachute descending is certain to be observed In all except the worst weather cor- ditions.

Secondly, men of the National De- be fence Companies, trained to suspicious of everybody, are especi- Strangers ally on the alert at night. walking across lonely parts of the

country could not easily avoid chal-

lenge.

"The third line of defence would

be the hotel proprietors. In the ex- tensive protected areas that now exist.

tien ask

acc

There are now

In view of recent everits the

Obsolete Airplanes Home Office after consultation These proprietors, if they have the strange with Scotland Yard and the slightest suspicion about a military authorities, has decided arrival, report to the police, who win the visitor's iden- to take drastic measures to pre-tity card and check up on it. vent the growth of any such Several aliens have already been caught wandering about the country- organisation in this country.

Attempts to establish the frame-side by these methods.

known to be work of a German "Fifth Column"

several thousand trained Nazi para- in England were frustrated at the

chutists, every one of whom has outbreak of war by the prompt action

made six training Jumps, from vari of Scotland Yard.

ous heights. Gerntun key-men number of

They are formed into regiments, were-sent-to-establish themselves in England two years before the war, and the regiments in turn are divided of 12 men under a into sections They were kept under observation:

rection. The airplanes used aze from the time they landed. Investi- leader. There is an airplane for ench gation by Special Branch detectives mostly obsolete bombers with which proved beyond doubt that they had

the Luft-waffe re-equipped been sent here to organise propa-

after Germany reamed. ganda, to establish a complete system)

The training of additional para- and to make contact with people who would be willing to chutists became urgent a few weeks

after war started,

A

of espionage. Sesist in subotage.

A report on their activities was submitted to the Home Office. They were all interned within 24 hours of the outbreak of the war. Among them was a German doctor attached

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50 to a famous London hospital, a City

SECTION FOUR

+

(Craftsmen's Section)

The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who will be required to make a declaration to this effect. Each entry must have pasted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.

Anancial agent who owned an acro- plane and a yacht, a scoutmaster and a former Press Attache in Berlin.

Another prominent member of the organisation was a German Consul, who was asked to leave the country. The authorities are satisfted that the key-men of the organisation have now been eliminated.

soon

Aliens Get 4-Guinea Rooms Free

FOUR - GUINEA - A - WEEK hotel bedrooms were made ready German recently for the prisoners who are to be kept on Mooragh-promenade, Ramsey, for the rest of the war.

The

have

cold hot and They ure close to the sea are still at liberty. Information was jand a nine-hole golf course. The

Planning Sabotage Although their associates have been carefully watched, it is believed that many of their agents and sympathi- sers who are unknown to the police water.

rooms

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd: $20. 4th. $12.50. received at Scotland Yard recently golf course is included in the grounds

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1-The Competition is confined ex- lusively to amateur photo. grapher

2-No employés or member of any Arm in the photographle trade permitted to compete. 3-The pripes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- Kapha in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by a For which will be published during the period of the Com petition, and which must be pasted on back of entry..

The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph,

All photographs entered must have been taken to the Colony of Hongkong. Photographa which -have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible 1. No responibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, lose of, or damode 10 eritrics,

SECTION

NAME

ADDRESS

7-All entries to be either black, sepla, or toned pictures, and must bo mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible.

B-Pictures submitted in sepia tones

should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white. D-No picture to entered in more

than one Section.

10-Mounts to be only white or cream, must be of one of the following

:-10X12, 10x20,

11-No correspondence will be entered

into in connection with the Com petition.

12-Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.

13-The decision of the Judges shall

be final.

14-At the conclusion of the Com

petition, entries, will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seven days.

ENTRY FORM

Please use block, letters and paste this-on-back-of-cach Entry In Sections 1, 1 and 3,

that Nazi agents were planning of the camp.

Men spent all of one day putting sabotage at a number of Government factories, and a warning was sent to two lines of barbed wire and a bat- police forces throughout the country.tery of floodlights-round the boun

ajdaries. Chief Inspector Salisbury and

The first batch of interneci-1,000; squad of detectives went to the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Ab-out of the 3,000 total-are expected bey, and other Scotland Yard officers jover from Liverpool in a day or two.

One of their jobs will be to clear: went to Woolwich Arsenal. Follow-

Ing their investigations it has been a plece of land and start growing. deckled to take census of enemy vegetables for themselves. atiens employed in British factories,

Detectives In Factories MAY BE SENT ABROAD

It is estimated that there are more

than 20,000 German workers in this Evacuation of Children country many of whom hold key posts

in faclories engaged on Government contracts.

Detectives have been sent to work

From Britain

London, June 5.

In the factories to assist in the in- Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Parlia- vestigations. Over 10 enemy aliens mentary Secretary for the Dominions, living in the London area who were told a questioner in the House of freed from internment by the tri-Commons to-day that the question bunnis have since been interned by laf the evacuation of children, from special Home Office orders, follow-Britain to Canada and Australia was ing Inquiries by Special Branch receiving urgent consideration and detectives..

The hoped to be able to make a stale- Fresh evidence is likely to result inent on the subject shortly.-Reuter. in the internacht of hundreds of

enemy aliens when they appear be to prevent the movements of ship- fore the new regional committees set ping from becoming known to the up by the Home Office. Particular Germans is in full working order, attention, will be paid to German do-

No one can approach any harbour servant employed in mestic

the without being challenged by police or households of serving oflcero.

The committees will later review military guards, All workers many of the 64,000 Class Gormans questioned and must show permits,

Permits entitle holders to enter the and Austrians who were exempt from protected areas but not the prohibited internment without restrictions.

Protaction Of Shipping

ara

areas under Admiralty control, for which a special endorsement by the

The scheme devised by the Ad-naval commander-in-charge la néces- miralty, War. Office and Horné Offico sarý....

UFS

Youngest soldier In France probably is Leon Imbert, 62. mascot of Alping-fortress regiment. He lives like other soldiers and was recently decorated with insigne of scout patroller.

General In Plus Fours

GERMAN troops in Oslo, called out to march past

a Nazi general, were goose-stepping towards the saluting base when they saw the general standing there in a mili- tary jacket, plus fours and sports shoes.

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than the. timme given below unless otherwise- stated, and where malls are advertis- ed to close at or before 0 a.m. re- gistered and parcol mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. When mails are advertised to close after pm, Registered and Parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m.

INWARD MAILS Air Alali by "Air Franco Direct Ser-

vice" Paris dale, 20th May.

June 6. Air Mail by "Imperial Atrways Direct Service" London date 20th May.

Bangkok and Salgon Canton

Canton

Jane G.

Jtine ...

.June 8.

..June 6.

Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shangbai (Vancouver B.C, date, 18th May) June 6. Formosa, Amoy and Swatow June 0. Shanghal and Swalow ....June & USA and Manila (San Francisc

date, May 11) Halphong

.June 7 .June 7. Haiphong, Holhow and Fort Bayard

Japan and Shanghai.

June 7.

Japan, Shanghai and Formosa June 8.

June 6.

Shanghai

June 8.

Shanghal

*.June 8.

Shanghai and Amoy

June 8

Straits

June 8.

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways.

Direct Service" London date, 1st Jano

Japan and Shanghal

.June 9..

June 9.

Sandakan

June 9.

Shanghai

June 8.

Shanghai and Amoy

June 9.

Shanghai and Amoy

June D.

Canton

June 10.

Halphong

June 10.

Japan and Shanghai......June 10. Air Mail by "Pan American Airways

Direct Bervled San Francisco date, 4th June..... Europe via Suez and Stralis

don dute, 1st May)

June 11. (Lon-

..June 11.

OUTWARD MAILS Thursday, June 8

Fort Bayard and Haiphong...Noon. Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New

Zealand via Brisbane

Par.

Reg.

Ord

Japan

Amoy

G.r.O, and K.P.O.

....Noon..

.1.45 p.m.

.2.30 pm.

.2.30 p.m.

,8.00 p.m.

Saigon, Bangkok, Mauritius, Reunion,

Madagascar Lourenco

and South Africa Manila

Amoy

Shanghai

Marques

3.30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.

7. p.m.

p.m.

He had been fixed up with these clothes after being Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and rescued from the sunken cruiser Bluecher.

EXHIBITION

of

LATEST PATTERNS.

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IN

PLATINUM RINGS

-

SET WITH

EMERALDS

SAPPHIRES

AND

DIAMONDS

ALSO

DIAMOND

WRIST WATCHES

AT

100000000000

SENNET FRERES

Franco (Paris and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Air France

Airways Direct Service",

K.P.O.

June 6, 5.00 p.m. June 6, 5.30 p.m.

June 6, 5.00 pm. „June 6, 7.00 p.m.

Reg.

Ord.

a.r.o.

Rex.

Ord.

Friday, June 7

Canton

Tourane, Saigon.....

Bangkok

Saturday, June 8

Shanghal.....

.7.15. a.m.

.5.30 p.m.

12.30 p.m.

.12.30 p.m.

Straits, Ceylon, India, East and

South Africa, Aden, Egypt'"and"

Europe via Marseilles

Reg.

Ord.

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

..June 8, 2.45 p.m.

..June 8, 2.80 p.m.

Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct

Service"

· G.P.0. & K.P.O.

Reg., .........June 8, 5 pm. Ord.......... June 8, 5.30 p.za.

Bunday, June 9 ...................9.00 Monday, June 10

Shanghai

Straits and Calcutta,

Parcels

Letters

a.m.

.0.30 a.m.

.10.30 n.m.

Swatow, Amoy and Formosa

10.30 a.m. Parcels only for Haiphong ....Noon.

.2 p.m. Haiphong

Conton

PM

Tuesday, June 11 Batavia and Sourabaya... 0.39 a.m. Manila, Straits, Ceylon, Indie, E. and S. Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe -via-Naples.

G.P.0, and K.P.O. Reg., Ordi,

..June 11, 2.45 pm. June 11, 3.30 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways

Direct Service."

Iter.

Ord,

Rek.

Ord...

K.F.O.

Jane 11, 5 pm. ..June 11, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

...Juno 11, 5 pm. „Jons" II," "pENE

Air Mall for Malaya, Java and Aus- iralla by "Imperial Airways Direct: Bervice."

Iter.

Ord.

Reg.

Ord

K.P.O.

..Jane 11, 5 p.m. June 11, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

June 11, 5 pm.

June 11, 7 p.m.

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Hono

Iold and UBA, by the Pan American Airways Direct Service,"

Reg.

Ord.

Reg. Ord

Canton

Straits

KLO.

Juno.11, 3 pati.

„June 11, 5.30 pm. G.P.O.

Jane 11, p.3.

June 11, 7 p.m.

,7 p.m.

...7 p.m. Wednesday, June 12 Fort Bayard, Hollow and Haiphong Noon.. Parcels only for Tlertsin.....Noon.. Straits and Calcutta

Canton

Parcels, ...June 12. 1 p.m. Letters, ....June 12, 2 p.m..

Thursday, June 13

..7.15 a.m. Swatow and Parcels only for Shang-

hai

.9.30 a.m. Shongħal, Japții, Cunada, U.S.A., C. and S. America via Vancouver B.C.,

---(Tarcels for Canada), ka

***G. P: 0. mɑ K, P, 0, 1

Parcels June 13, 10 n.m.. Reg., June 18, 11:10 a.m. June 13, Noon.

Ord..